More than 65% of the world’s population now uses a mobile phone, with global users increasing by nearly 100 million in the past year, according to research firm We Are Social. Global mobile phone users reached 5.29 billion in October 2021. 4.88 billion users actively use the internet nowadays, accounting for approximately 62% of the world’s population. Less than half of India’s population has access to the internet, while Denmark, UAE and South Korea have over 98% people using the internet.
Social media users increased by more than 400 million or 9.9% in the past 12 months, reaching 4.55 billion last month. User growth has slowed slightly over the past three months, but the global total continues to increase at a rate of more than 1 million new users every single day, the report added.
The growth in social media users is an “impressive milestone” as the figure is more than 10% higher than last year, the report said. In fact, an average of 13 new users started to use social media for the first time every second during the last 13 months.
Social media users are likely to be adopted by 60% of the global population in the first half of 2022, the research firm estimated.
Credit : The Hindu
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